DESIGNATING THE PERIOD FROM AUGUST 19 TO SEPTEMBER 19, 1950, AS “ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS MONTH” AND AUTHORIZING THE PHILIPPINE TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY TO CONDUCT A NATIONAL FUND AND EDUC…

WHEREAS, tuberculosis kills or disables more
Filipinos than any other human affliction does and brings to our people each
year greater economic loss, more grief and more deaths;

WHEREAS, the Philippine Tuberculosis Society is
slowly but surely arresting its havoc through medical care and treatment on the
one hand and by its effective program of control and prevention through its
educational campaign on the other; and

WHEREAS, it is for the benefit of the people
themselves that every possible assistance and support, moral as well as
material, should be extended to the Philippine Tuberculosis Society to
implement its resources vital to its unrelenting crusade against this scourge;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of
the Philippines, by virtue of the authority vested in me by law, do hereby
designate the period from August 19 to September 19, 1950, as
“Anti-Tuberculosis Month” and authorize the Philippine Tuberculosis Society to
conduct a national fund and educational drive during said period. I call upon
all citizens and residents of the Philippines, irrespective of nationality or
creed, to assist in this humanitarian campaign by giving generously so that we
may keep this dreadful, disease under control. I authorize all the treasurers
of provincial, city and municipal governments as well as school officials to
accept, for the Philippine Tuberculosis Society, voluntary contributions and
donations and to issue official recepits therefor.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of July,
in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of
the Philippines, the fifth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary

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